John Clapham

Also known as: Iohn Clappam esquier · Family: Warwick · Role: esquire · First appears: Edward IV 8

Life events

• c. 1469 · John Clapham’s force routed the Welsh army, killing more than five thousand.(Edward IV 8 · 📍 Hedgecote)
  • With: William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke Richard Herbert
  • “The Welshmen, thinking that the earle of Warwike had come on them with all his puissance, suddenlie as men amazed, fled: the northerne men them pursued, and slue without mercie, so that there died of the Welshmen that daie, aboue fiue thousand, besides them that fled and were taken.”

Edward IV 8

• employer: Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick “Iohn Clappam esquier, seruant to the earle of Warwike, mounted vp the side of the east hill, accompanied onelie with fiue hundred men”
• sworn: Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick “Iohn Clappam esquier, seruant to the earle of Warwike, mounted vp the side of the east hill, accompanied onelie with fiue hundred men, gathered of the rascals of the towne of Northampton, and other villages about, hauing borne before them the standard of the earle of Warwike, with the white beare, crieng; A Warwike, a Warwike.”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.